How do I tar exclude a folder?

Sometimes it’s nice if you are tar zipping a directory (let’s say for a backup) and want to exclude a directory. For instance, if you are backing up a project and want to exclude the images directory (for size) or exclude the build or dist directory you can run the linux tar command with the –exclude option.

How do I skip a folder in rsync?

When you need to exclude a large number of different files and directories, you can use the rsync –exclude-from flag. To do so, create a text file with the name of the files and directories you want to exclude. Then, pass the name of the file to the –exlude-from option.

How do I tar all files except one?

The big gotcha is that the –exclude=’./folder’ MUST be at the beginning of the tar command. Full command (cd first, so backup is relative to that directory): cd /folder_to_backup tar –exclude=’./folder’ –exclude=’./upload/folder2′ -zcvf /backup/filename. tgz .

How do you exclude a file in rsync?

There are two options to specify the files and directories you want to exclude: From a command line, using the –exclude option. From a file, using the –exclude-from option. To exclude a specific file, pass the relative path to the file to the –exclude option.

How to exclude multiple directories in tar file?

To exclude multiple directories you can either provide directories separately or by listing each directory seperated by comma and encased in {curly brackets}. List all the directories to be excluded into a file and use this list to exclude directories during tar.

How to exclude cache and TMP in rsync?

For example in real time where you wish to rsync /var to a backup directory but you don’t wish to include cache and tmp folder that usually don’t hold important content between restarts you can use the following command: To exclude a specific with specific extension, we use the appropriate pattern.

How to pipe Linux shell command to tar Directory?

To avoid possible ‘xargs: Argument list too long’ errors due to the use of find | xargs when processing tens of thousands of files, you can pipe the output of find directly to tar using find -print0 | tar –null ….